Integrated Studies of Banana on Remote Sensing, Biogeography, and Biodiversity: An Indonesian Perspective

The study of banana herbs and fruits is rarely conducted using multidisciplinary approaches. However, a multidisciplinary approach could be useful for gaining information on many aspects, including remote sensing, biodiversity and biogeography, owing to the uniqueness of bananas. The present article...

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Published inDiversity (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 4; p. 277
Main Authors Wikantika, Ketut, Ghazali, Mochamad Firman, Dwivany, Fenny Martha, Novianti, Cindy, Yayusman, Lissa Fajri, Sutanto, Agus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2022
Subjects
banana
Bananas
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Drone aircraft
Ecotourism
Food industry
Food technology
Fruits
Genomes
Geographic information systems
GIS
Herbs
Metabolomics
Moisture content
Plant diseases
Plantations
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Sensors
spectral analysis
Tourism
Transcriptomics
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Water content
East Asia
Indonesia
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Summary:The study of banana herbs and fruits is rarely conducted using multidisciplinary approaches. However, a multidisciplinary approach could be useful for gaining information on many aspects, including remote sensing, biodiversity and biogeography, owing to the uniqueness of bananas. The present article reviews a study on banana herbs from an Indonesian perspective. It starts by obtaining information related to firmness, peel’s colour change, water content and sugar content corresponding to Brix and Starch values. It then proceeds to find the relation between remote sensing (RS) technologies of all these biophysical characteristics and genomics, transcriptomic and metabolomics. Besides this, geospatial sciences, such as geographic information systems (GIS), may help visualise biogeographical factors that help analyse a land’s suitability for growing bananas. Furthermore, the plant canopy, health and plant disease, and the herbs’ water content, analysed through satellite images and aerial photos of drones, helps describe the banana distribution in Indonesia, at both the local and regional levels. Similar techniques may be applied to explore and analyse the characteristics of the fruit. In the end, the integration of these methods can foster advanced studies on bananas, even making it possible for its scope to extend to industries, food technology, post-harvest, and eco-tourism.
ISSN:1424-2818
1424-2818
DOI:10.3390/d14040277